Project Coordinator : Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales, represented by Mr Daniel Caruana.
WP0 Consortium Management
WP Leader: Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales
WP Objectives:
- To set-up the management infrastructure (committees, boards, quality plan, procedures, risk, registers, project management tools, internal web site, etc.)
- To provide technical coordination of the project partners
- To provide financial and contractual management of the consortium, including maintenance of the Consortium Agreement and IPR issues.
WP1 Plasma devices, investigations, developments and improvements
WP Leader: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
WP Objectives:
- Investigate, improve, design, manufacture and test the different types of surface and spark plasma actuators
- Develop specific measuring techniques to investigate and characterise the plasma, ionic wind and micro-jet of the actuators.
- Investigate new materials for the construction of plasma actuators
- Select the most promising plasma actuators for advanced aerodynamic investigations (WP3) and integration and validation tests (WP4).
WP2 Physical modelling, coupling and fluid dynamic simulations
WP Leader: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (JRU LAPLACE)
WP Objectives:
- Develop and use models to better understand the physics of the plasma/flow interaction
- Perform numerical simulations of flow control for WP1 actuator configurations developed and used in the experiments of WP3 and WP4.
WP3 Wind tunnel tests investigations for flow control
WP Leader: Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales
WP Objectives:
- Perform aerodynamic experiments using realistic configurations (landing, take-off or cruise conditions) on different actuators qualified in WP1 (wall plasma discharge, spark discharge) to prove and optimise the efficiency of plasma actuators for aerodynamic flow control:
- Estimate the energy balance (power consumed by actuator vs. lift and lift / drag increase)
- Support the plasma actuator developments in WP1
- Provide a data base of test results for WP2 to assist them in computation code validation.
WP4 Validation & Integration
WP Leader: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
WP Objectives:
- Chose and transfer the best flow control concepts to large scale
- Develop and manufacture a 2D airfoil model for transonic wind tunnel tests
- Develop and manufacture a 3D wing model for wind tunnel tests for subsonic high lift configurations
- Develop, build and operate an 2m span UAV flight platform for subsonic flight experiments in realistic conditions
- Integrate the necessary power supplies for all the actuators to be tested
- Validate and integrate the best flow control concepts on 2D airfoil transonic flow, on 3D wing subsonic configuration and on real flight platform condition
- Measure the energy balance (power consumed by actuator vs. lift and lift / drag increase)
- Give the conclusions and perspectives in flow control by plasmas.
WP5 Dissemination, Exploitation & training
WP Leader: Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales
WP Objectives:
- To make aware the European Academia and Industry of the project
- To communicate within Europe results and potential impact of project results
